Health Chapter 3

Question 1

What is the body housing the lungs?

Answer 1

Thoracic Cavity.

Question 2

What is the thin membrane covering the lungs?

Answer 2

Pleura.

Question 3

What are the tiny air sacs within the lungs where gas exchange occurs?

Answer 3

Alveoli.

Question 4

What is the major muscle used in breathing?

Answer 4

Diaphragm.

Question 5

What are the tiny structures that move mucus and trapped particles toward the pharynx to be swallowed and destroyed by stomach acids.

Answer 5

Ciliia.

Question 6

What is the name given to air-filled cavities inside certain facial bones?

Answer 6

Sinuses.

Question 7

What are two causes of asthma?

Answer 7

Allergies,change in weather, overexertion.

Question 8

What are three common allergens?

Answer 8

Pollen, house dust, animal dander, chocolate, mold spores, eggs, wheat, seafoods.

Question 9

The process to extract energy from the digested food is called

Answer 9

Respiration

Question 10

Respiration is carried out in the body by the different organs of the ____________ ____________

Answer 10

Respiratory System

Question 11

What is breathing called

Answer 11

External respiration

Question 12

What do you exhale

Answer 12

Carbon dioxide

Question 13

What is the sign for carbon dioxide

Answer 13

CO2

Question 14

What do you inhale

Answer 14

Oxygen

Question 15

What is the sign for oxygen

Answer 15

O

Question 16

The gas exchange between cells and blood is called ____________ ____________

Answer 16

Internal respiration

Question 17

During _____________ ______________, oxygen is combined with food products to make energy

Answer 17

Cellular respiration

Question 18

What do humans and animals expel that plants need

Answer 18

Carbon dioxide

Question 19

What do plants make for humans and animals

Answer 19

Oxygen and food

Question 20

Is it better to breathe through your nose or your mouth

Answer 20

Nose

Question 21

The _____________ ______________ in your nose collects many pathogens and dust particles from the air you breathe

Answer 21

Mucous membrane

Question 22

As the air passes through the _________ __________ on its way to the lungs it is moisturized and warmed

Answer 22

Nasal cavity

Question 23

What is the name for the throat

Answer 23

Pharynx

Question 24

What is the name for the windpipe

Answer 24

Trachea

Question 25

Branches of the windpipe

Answer 25

Bronchi and bronchioles

Question 26

A sticky substance that dust and pathogens cling that is made by the mucous membrane

Answer 26

Mucous

Question 27

Tiny hairlike structures that move mucous to the pharynx

Answer 27

Cilia

Question 28

Where are your lungs located

Answer 28

The thoracic cavity

Question 29

The large spongy organs of your respiratory system

Answer 29

Lungs

Question 30

A thin slippery membrane covering your lungs

Answer 30

Pleura

Question 31

Air sacs in the lungs

Answer 31

Alveoli

Question 32

A muscle that deprecated the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity and aids in the breathing process by contracting to give added space in the thoracic cavity

Answer 32

Diaphragm

Question 33

What color is a new born baby’s lungs

Answer 33

pink

Question 34

pollutants, such as dust and tobacco smoke, turn the lungs from this healthy color to a __________ ___________ color

Answer 34

blotchy brownish

Question 35

irritating substances that result in sneezing and wheezing

Answer 35

allergens

Question 36

A persistent difficulty in breathing, usually due to some outside substance that has been ingested or inhaled

Answer 36

asthma

Question 37

Asthma caused by an allergic reaction

Answer 37

allergy-induced asthma

Question 38

Thick mucous in the throat

Answer 38

phlegm

Question 39

Asthma caused by too much exercise

Answer 39

exercise-induced asthma

Question 40

a group of air filled cavities located inside certain facial bones

Answer 40

sinuses

Question 41

What prefix refers to the lungs

Answer 41

Pneumo

Question 42

What prefix refers to the bronchi

Answer 42

Bronch